2.5 Gigapixel Image of the Orion Constellation Took 5 Years to Complete

> Where Harbison had previously captured an image of the Nebula on a 10-11 pixel scale, using the QHY 16200 camera would change that to a 1.6-pixel scale of the constellation Orion.

Pixel scale here seems to mean how many arc-seconds a pixel covers. The full moon (or one's thumb at arm's length iirc) substend about 30 arc-minutes (half a degree)

Re: 2.5 Gigapixel Image of the Orion Constellation Took 5 Years to Complete

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Post by kzrdude » Sat, Oct 24, 2020, 10:54 AM UTC

SXX wrote: post #4

Image itself in high resolution can be found here: https://orion2020v5b.spaceforeverybody.com/

I was looking for galaxies, and then I turned on annotations. There's a ton of PGC annoations (galaxy catalogue) and it helps you see many of them; however many of them don't seem to be visible at all in the picture (there's too many of those PGC annotations?)

Either way, very cool, that helps getting the eyes up for the galaxies scattered in the picture.

Re: 2.5 Gigapixel Image of the Orion Constellation Took 5 Years to Complete

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Post by shoaib1 » Sat, Oct 24, 2020, 11:18 AM UTC

koi gal ni

Re: 2.5 Gigapixel Image of the Orion Constellation Took 5 Years to Complete

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Post by blackwater » Sat, Oct 24, 2020, 11:30 AM UTC

SXX wrote: post #4

Image itself in high resolution can be found here: https://orion2020v5b.spaceforeverybody.com/

Can I download the full scale image from somewhere?